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Philadelphia 



John Wanamaker 
1910 



Three Briefs 

tJI The Store System in Brief. Trustworthy goods only, at uniformly right 
prices ; all articles (with few exceptions, mainly for sanitary reasons) returnable 
within reasonable time for cheerful reimbursement if uninjured. 

t| The Mail Order System in Brief. Individual service by experienced shop- 
pers, who watch out for your wishes 6c your interests ; prompt attention to 
every message; a telephone service that never sleeps. 

C| World-wide Free Delivery by Mail. See page 62. 



The Daily Wanamaker Announcements 

(Glipt from a Wanamaker advertizement) 

lj|, We do not try to force upon the people what we want to sell, but rather we 
try to find out & give news to the people about what they want to buy. 

tjj Seventy per cent, of the average news in the average newspaper does not make 
you happier, does not make you richer, & does not even inform you about such 
topics as will be beneficial to your mind. So it is not to be marveled at so much 
that people should turn to the Wanamaker page. There is always something 
interesting in styles to be found there ; some little charm or novelty that will give 
more attraction to a woman or more finish to a man. 



HISTORY OF THE FOUNDING OF 

PHILADELPHIA 

Some Brief Historic Chapters on the City, and 
Especially the Heart of the City, Including 

The Wanamaker Store 

CITY HALL SQUARE 




Seal of Philadelphia in 1683 



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INDEX TO WANAMAKER PRIMER 



A 

Awdemj of Natural Sciences 30 

Academy of the Fine Arts 30 

Ambulance Service 30 

Amusement Resorts 32 

Apprentices' Library 34 

Area of the City 34 

Aaw>«iaUon Hall 34 

B 

Baltimore & Ohio depot 34 

Bank of North America 34 

Bartram's Garden 36, 45 

Belmont 36 

Benjamin Franklin's Grave 36 

Betsy Ross House 30 

Btae Anchor Inn 9 

BrtLd St. Station 36 

c 

Carpenter's Hall 36, 41 

Cathedral 36 

Cbew House 35 

Clirlst Church 36 

Chronology 18 

City Hall 36 

Clark's Inn 19 

Cliftan Hall 49 

Clock in City Hall Tower 3b 

Commercial and Trade Bodiee 31 

Continental Hotel 36 

C«ape and Hansom Service 40 

D 

Daily Newspapers 32 

Dictionary of Landmarks 30 

Drexel Institute 42 

E 

■IlK' Home 42 

F 

Pairmount Park 42 

FVanklln Institute 42 



G 

George Washington 13 

Germantowu 42 

Glrard College 42 

Girard Trust building 42 

H 

Heights of prominent buildings . . 44 

History 3 

Horse Market Hotel 29 

Horticultural Hall, Park 44 

House numbers 44 

I 

Independence Hall 21, 23, 44 

Indians 16 

L 

Lamb Tavern road 44 

League Island naval station .... 44 

Libraries and museums 46 

Logan, James 46 

Lover's Leap 40" 

Lulu Temple 46 

M 

Mantua Village 46 

Map of Philadelphia, first 51 

Masonic Temple 46 

Memorial Hall 48 

Mennonite Church 47 

Minstrelsy 48 

Musical Culture 48 

Musical Fund Hall 48 

Music in the Schools 48 

N 

Newspapers 40 

New York 48 



Odd Fellows' Temple 50 

Old market house 39 

Old Pine St. Presbyterian Church 50 

Old suburban names 50 

Old Swedes' Church 31 

Open hours at places of Interest. . 50 

Opera houses 55 



P 

Penn's College 11 

Penn Square water works 25 

Penny Pot House 13 

Prieons 55 

R 

Reading Terminal 55 

Ridgway Library 55 

Rittenhouse paper mill 27 

Bochambeau 10 

s 

School of Design for Women 55 

Shot tower 32 

Solitude 43 

Spring Garden Institute 55 

St. George's M. E. Church 55 

St. Peter's Church 55 

Statues of Penn 55 

Stenton 53 

Street car routes 55 

Streets 58 

Subway 56 

T 

Taxicab service 58 

Tedyuscung IJ 

Trade organizations go 

Travel 59 

u 

Union League 60 

United States Mint 60 

University of Pennsylvania w 

V 

Valley Forge 15 

Vaults for fur storage w 

w 

Wagner Free Institute 61 

Wanamaker Store 60 

Wayne, Gen 12 

William Penn » 

Wissahickon ^ 

Woodlands *" 

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Zoological Garden 81 



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CHAPTER I— HISTORY 

HE year 1910 marks the 227th Anniversary of the 
founding of Philadelphia by William Penn, who 
secured from Charles II of England a grant of a large 
tract west of the Delaware in lieu of 16,000 pounds 
sterling — owed his father by the Crown — on condition 
of paying annually two beaver skins. 
The latest life of William Penn, and in some respects 
the best, because written by one of his descendants — 
Mrs. Colquhoun Grant — thus tells how Philadelphia 
came to be settled as a means of collecting a bad debt: 

\A^hen Admiral Penn was living he had loaned the crown sixteen thousand pounds sterling. 
This had never been paid ; his son, aware of the difficulties of obtaining it, petitioned King Charles 
to give him, instead of the money, a grant of unoccupied land in America. After a year or two of 
delay and after much opposition, the request was granted, and in March, 1681, the patent was 
issued, the king having inserted the name Pennsylvania as that of the new province. Penn was 
much disappointed at this, as he had already selected the name of New Wales for the territory, 
'li and offered the under secretary twenty guineas if he would get the name altered, but the king was 
obdurate, and to shut off all further appeal declared that it was named in memory of his father, 
the admiral. With that answer Penn had to content himself. 



So William Penn, land-poor, good-looking, and 39 years old, came over 
in 1682; built himself the modest house now transplanted to Fair- 
mount Park; and in the following year founded the city which he meant 
to be "a faire green country town." 
It was not a lone wilderness then, for six years earlier the Swedes had built a second church, called 
"Gloria Dei," still one of the city's venerated landmarks — their first church was built at Tinicum in 
1646; and before the Swedes were the Indians. Mrs. Grant tells us: 

On behalf of the Indians, he ordered that their furs should be sold in the public market-place, so that the planters should not overreach them, 
and, in this manner, suffer the test of whether they were good or bad. 

It is to Penn, and his love for trees, that we owe the names of many of our streets — including those 
on two sides of the store. Even Market street might be credited to Penn, as he intended that Penn 
square, among other uses, should be a market-place, and it was Market square in 1684. The fact that in 
the map of Philadelphia, drawn in London in 1683, the north and south streets were named numerically, 
sufficiently fixes the origin of "Thirteenth street." So that all four streets bounding this store are prac- 
tically named as Penn knew them. If he came back to Philadelphia to-day he could not be lost here. 
But long before Penn came, the Indians who dwelt in these woods had their own names for all this 
territory. 

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THE PLACE OF TALL PINES 

Coaquannock, "the centre and navel of Penn's original Philadelphia," was the Indian name for the 
"place of tall pines." A glance at the map of Philadelphia in Penn's day shows how close the store 
site must have been to the place of tall pines. 

In an interesting book by Edward S. "Wheeler, called "Scheyichbi and the Strand; or, the Early Days 
Along the Delaware," published in this city in the year in which the present store was opened, there 
is an account of two explorers from Amsterdam — Henry Hudson, who gave his name to the Hudson 
River, and Adrian Block, who gave his name to Block Island. 

Here is a paragraph from Mr. Wheeler's book of particular interest in store annals as touching cen- 
tral Philadelphia. 

It happened that three fur traders, agents of the New Netherland Company, having left Fort Nassau (near Albany), and made tbeir 
way along Indian trails to the mouth of the Schuylkill, were there kept prisoners ; news of this reaching Manhattan, the Restless was 
sent from the Mauritius River, under command of Cornelius Hendrickson, to ransom the adventurous captives. Block had constructed tiie 
Onrust for shallow waters and inland navigation : so Hendrickson, on his arrival at Zuydt Baai, coasted fearlessly along the western shore, 
making careful observations, bartering with the natives for seal-skins and sables, and being delighted with the scenery, climate and veape- 
table productions of the valley, until he arrived at Coaquannock, " the place of the tall pines," now central Philadelphia ; there he found aad 
ransomed his countrymen for " kettles, beads, and other merchandise." 

Little did those early explorers imagine when they sought for a path that should be a short cut to 
India that they were upon the site of the coming store which was to bring India and America so close 
together! 

Another interesting fact, recorded in Scharf and Westcott's History, Volume I: Penn intended that 
Coaquannock should be the place of his treaty with the Indians, but Clarkson records that it vrcis 
finally changed to the Elm Tree at Shackamaxon, because there was a Friends' village near there. It 
was in that great historic Treaty that he proclaimed the principles of good faith and good will which 
have become part of this store's heritage — the only treaty not sworn to and the only one never broken. 

THE SITE AND VICINAGE OF THE PRESENT STORE 

There was a list of first purchasers of lots on High and other streets in Philadelphia, which was 
published in London in 1G83 by the Free Society of Traders. Below Thirteenth street to the Delaware 
nearly all the lots were taken; no owners were specified for the three lots occupying the south side of 
Market street, between Thirteenth and Juniper. Evidently they were not thought desirable so near the 
common! 

From the days of Penn this neighborhood has been a historic spot. Where the Public Buildings now 
stand there was the first city race-course, and the first structure at this point was the pumping station 
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In James Robinson's little book on Philadelphia, printed in 1807, we are told: 

In 1749 no less than twenty-five sail arrived with German passengers at once, introducing 12,000 of those frugal and industrious settlers fron-. 
whom Pennsylvania derives so large a portion of her prosperity. 

Fourth street continued for many years to be the extent of Market street to the westward, beyond which the squares were laid out in 
orchards and pasture grounds under post and rail fence, excepting the garden of the famous Judge Kinsey, whose town house stands near 
Fifth street. 

Thirteenth street then had but twenty-three houses north of High or Market street and nineteen south 
of Market street. Juniper street had twenty-three north and fourteen south. 

THE BTREETS ENCLOSING THE STORE SITE 

In naming the streets after trees and plants, Penn was following the custom of the Indians. "Coa- 
quannock," the name they gave to Central Philadelphia, meant "the grove of tall pines." 

Westcott records: 

In the same year (1677) Pete Rambo takes up 250 acres below Wicaco and Hartfelder's land, but two years later is compelled to surrender it 
to the Swensens, whose patent covers it. This tract was Coaquannock, the center and navel of Penn's original Philadelphia. 

And Penn's original Philadelphia, it will be remembered, ran only from Vine to Cedar (South) street. 

Market street was called High street, because it was the highest ground between the two rivers. 

Astolfi's Columbus Garden was on Market street, between Thirteenth and Centre square. It was a 
summer theatre and pantomime shovy. This was in 1813. In 1820 Stanislaus Surin, professor of leger- 
demain, changed its name to Tivoli Garden. Performances were given till 1825 and later. 

Chestnut street was at first Wynn street — a compliment to Doctor Thomas Wynn, of Wales, who 

came over on the good ship "Welcome" with William Penn. 

In 1811 Chestnut street was authorized to be paved from Eleventh to Broad street. 

In 1817 Market street was paved to Schuylkill Sixth (Seventeenth street), and was "entirely built up as far 

as the Centre Cquare." 

Thirteenth street was laid out as early as 1682. 

Juniper street was probably as old, though, like other streets, it was merely a lane; there were no curb 

stones till a century later. 

Of course, the naturalists flocked to the new country. Peter Kalm, a Swedish scientist, writing from 
Philadelphia, in 1748, said: 

The houses are covered with shingles, and wood for this purpose is taken from the Cupressus thyoides. a tree which the Swedes here call the 
white juniper tree, and the English the white cedar. 

It is very light, rots less than any other, and for that reason is good for roofs, for it is not too heavy for the walls and will serve 40 or 50 
years together. 

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The juniper, it may be added, is a small, spreading tree with purple aromatic berries. Under the 
name of red cedar, it is as familiar to us as a cover for lead pencils, as it was to our forefathers as a 
cover for their homes in the form of shingles.* 

On Varlo's map of the city, published between 1790 and 1800, the public 
square is bounded on the east by Juniper street, but it was much narrower 
than it now is, opposite the square. In 1846 Councils authorized its 
widening to fifty feet, taking the necessary ground off the square. 

On April 8, 1883, the store announcement said: "Why shouldn't we drop 
the word 'Juniper' now, and use 'Broad' street? Say Broad street east 
for our store side, and Broad street west for the Pennsylvania Railroad 
station side." 

By the way, a portion of South Juniper street was at one time Shippen 
lane. In the days of the Revolution, Colonel Francis Gurney, an officer 
in the Continental Army, had his country seat at the corner of Broad 
and Catharine streets, running back to Shippen lane. St. Teresa's Catholic 
Church now occupies a part of the Gurney homestead. 

COLONIAL DAYS AND LATER 

The journal of William Black, 1744, secretary of the commission to treat 
with the Iroquois, mentions that there was "a billiard table and bowling 
green at the Centre House, Penn square." The house was still there in 
1761, when it was the scene of a homicide by a British army officer. 

In 1781 Count Rochambeau, with 6000 French troops, camped on and 
around Centre square overnight on the way to Yorktown, and the fragrant 
piny woods near the site of the store supplied the fagots for their camp- 

GENERAL ROCHAMBEAU fires. 

In 1785 the State Arsenal was built on a lot from Juniper street to Thirteenth, above Chestnut. In this 
high, brick-walled building much of the powder was stored that won the battle of New Orleans in the 
War of 1812. It was from the Arsenal wall that Sheriff McMichael read the Riot Act to the mob 

* It is believed by some writers that the red cedar is of the same species as the chittim-wood ot the Scriptures ; and that the cypress, also 
a native of these woods, was identical with the gopher-wood of Noah's ark. 

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assembled on Thirteenth street in front of St. John's Church during the troubles of 1844. This build- 
ing was sold in 1853 by Act of the General Assembly for thirty thousand dollars! Some difference in 

the value of rer.l estate then and now! 

It was in the Arsenal days that Oliver Evans sped his trackless steam 
engine around Centre square, just opposite the Arsenal. Evans understood 
the application of steam to wagons, so that his was the pioneer auto- 
mobile. 
Among the hotels in this vicinity at a later date than 1785 were: 

The White Horse, Market street, above Thirteenth, in front of the Tivoli 

Garden. 

The Sorrel Horse, Market street, below Thirteenth. 

Horse Market Hotel, on the Gibson property, Market street, opposite the 

store. 

United States Hotel, or Franklin Hotel, where Daniel Webster used to 
stay. Chestnut street, near Fourth. 

Old Black (or white?) Horse Inn, Second street, above Race. 

Merchants' Hotel, Fourth street, near Arch. President Buchanan used to 
stay there. 

Black Bear Hotel, on Sixth street. 

On June 11, 1794, a "grand festival" was held at the square "to celebrate 
the abolition of despotism in France." An obelisk with the French and 
American colors draped was erected, around the base of which were young girls and boys dressed in 
white, holding baskets of flowers. Fauchet, the French Minister, and suite participated; also State and 
city officials. Americans and Frenchmen bearing oak branches then marched to M. Fauchet's home, 
southeast corner of Twelfth and Market streets, where they sang the "Marseillaise" and danced the 
"Carmagnole." 

After General Wayne's expedition to the Indians of the Northwest, whom he quelled in 1794, he camped 
on Centre square, and for many years it was the city camping ground, used by the militia for drills and 
parades. 

This old spot, it will be seen, with its numerous historical reminiscences, connects us with an honorable 
pedigree. Oldmixon, in his volume of reminiscences, says that Penn himself told him that he intended 
Centre square for a State House, a market house and a meeting house. So far back as 1698, "Fayrs" 
were held in Center square, in the months of May and August. 

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THE PEDIGREE OF CITY HALL SQUARE 

In aboriginal days it was known to the red men as a portion of the "place of tall pines." 

Next, with the coming of the white man, it was the "Commons" — a common meeting point of the two 

great highways which were to divide the city. 

Next it was called Market square. Penn had planned a market here to supply all the people. 

Next it was called Penn square, and was surrounded by a white paling fence. This was in 1829. 

Next, Councils changed the name to Centre square. It was surrounded by an iron fence and divided 

into four parts. 

About 1850 the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society held an exhibition in the southeast square — the one 

nearest this store — in tents. 

Finally, what has been left of the square is known as the City Hall courtyard and plaza. 

The word "Common" in the foregoing connection invites an inquiry into its origin. 

Like almost everything else in those early days, the "Common" came to us from England. Pollock, 
in "Land Laws," tells us that "according to the doctrine of the books a common is the waste of a 
manor." This of itself would not be a very helpful definition. But in Fiske's "American Political 
Ideas" is this enlightening little paragraph: 

The pleasant green commons, or squares, which occur in the midst of towns and cities in England and the United States, most probably 
originated from the coalescence of adjacent mark-communities, whereby the borderland used in common by all was brought into the centre 
of the aggregate. 

Centre square was a typical common before and during the Revolution. Washington used it at times 
as a camp site. It was a short cut for dwellers as far northwest as Bush Hill — for tired fathers who at 
the close of the day had no omnibus straps to hang to, and for tired mothers, to whom a shopping trip 
to the dry goods centres often meant a day's journey. It was likewise a great arena for boyish sports. 

There was no baseball or cricket in those days, but there were handball and football, and in vv'inter 
there were snowball fights. 

And there was the glorious sport of shinny! They called it "hockey" in England, where it came from. 
Bulwer, in "My Novel," speaks of it as "that old-fashioned game, now very uncommon in England, 
except at schools." 

That Centre square from the beginning was considered the hub of the city is shown by "A Short Adver- 
tisement upon the Situation and Extent of the City of Philadelphia, and the Ensuing Platform thereof 
by the Surveyor General," in which it is set forth:. 

In the Centre of the City is a Square of Ten Acres ; at each Angle are to be Houses for Publick Affairs, as a Meeting-house, Assembly or 
State House, Market House, School-house and several other buildings for Publick Concerns. 

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It is a fact not generally known that the Emancipation movement which culminated in President Lin- 
coln's proclamation of 1862 really began in Penn's Day, in Centre Square, and in the new brick meet- 
ing house just erected there. It originated with Francis Pastorius, the founder of Germantown. 
Reviewing the life of Pastorius by Dr. Learned, of the University of Pennsylvania, the New York "Post" 
states that it was Pastorius v/ho sent to the Friends' Meeting of 1688 the famous "protest against 
slavery," and that was the beginning of the great agitation. 

WHEN INDIANS LIVED HERE 

In conclusion, a few words about the Indians who tenanted this soil. 

Between Hudson's Bay on the north and Georgia on the south there were only two great Indian nations, 

the Iroquois and the Delawares — also called the Algonkins and the Lenni Lenapes. Both of these nations 

were represented on the &cil of Philadelphia when Penn came. 

The Lenni Lenapes dwelt along both sides of the Delaware, and r* least forty separate tribes were 

derived from them. They were real, primitive Indians, striking their fire from dried bits oi wood. They 

made bows from limbs of trees, and bow strings from animals' sinews. They used no tools but those 

of the Stone Age, and they made pretty baskets of corn leaves. 

The Iroquois v/ere more pretentious in their style of living. The family dwelt in one house. As the 

family grew, rooms were added. Like their kindred, the Conestogas, they had but one cooked meal a 

day — the dinner. 

Tamenend was probably the great chief of the Lenapes in the time of Penn. Penn's treaty was made 

with the Lenapes— whose name meant "we are the people" — and some of the Susquehanna Indians. 

The Susquehannas lived in the swamps near Darby Creek. They tattooed their arms and breasts, and 

were devil-worshippers. 

The Indians v/ho dwelt in the caves at Wissahickon called the stream Catfish Creek. 

Penn admired the Delaware Indians — a branch of the Lenapes v/ho tenanted these woods. In a letter 

he said of them: "The natives are proper and shapely, very swift, and their language lofty. They speak 

little, but fervently and with elegancy." 

In October, 1714, the chiefs of the Delawares and the Schuylkills visited Philadelphia, bringing presents 

of deer skins, etc., to shew their regard for the white man's government. 

In 1755 a band of Cherokee Indians who had been captives in Canada and had escaped visited this city 

on their way home. While they were here a delegation of Mohawks also came, headed by King Hen- 

drick. Both parties were 'odged in the State House. 

William Penn was called "Onas" by the Indians of this city — the name sigfnifying a quill or a pen. Before 

his final departure from Philadelphia, in 1701, he had a great council of them at Pennsbury Mansion, to 

take leave of him and renew covenants. 

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"TEDYUSCUNG" (WISSAHICKON) 
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CHAPTER II— CHRONOLOGY 

1646 — First Swedes Church buik on Tinicum. 

1677— Second Swedes' Church, "Gloria Dei," dedicated. 

1682, October 24 — WiUiam Penn landed at New Castle. 

1700, December 2 — WilHam Penn arrives on his second visit. 

1704— First Presbyterian Church built at Market street and White Horse alley (Bank street). 

1710— Christ Protestant Episcopal Church built, Second street, above Market. 

1731, July 1 — Philadelphia Library founded. 

1733 — St. Joseph's CathoUc Church, Willing's alley, built. 

1752 — The Hibernia Fire Company instituted. 

1755, May 28 — Cornerstone laid of Pennsylvania Hospital. 

1774 — Provincial Congress met at Carpenters' Hall. 

1776 — Declaration of Independence signed, the signing being hastened by the fact that horse-flies from a 

nearby livery stable beset the assembled patriots and bit mercilessly through their black silk 

stockinsfs* 

July 8 — Declaration of Independence read to the people from the Observatory, State House yard, 

by John Nixon. 

1777, September 26— The British enter Philadelphia. 
October 15 — Battle of Germantown. 

1778, June 18 — The British evacuate Philadelphia. 
1783 — Bank of North America opened. 

1785 — First arsenal built on Juniper street (present store site). 

1787, August 22 — John Fitch navigates a steamboat on the Delaware. 

1792, April 2 — Congress passes an Act establishing a Mint at Philadelphia. 

1793 — Yellow fever; 4002 deaths in four months. 

1795 — Lancaster turnpike opened — first in the United States. 

1800 — Schuylkill Arsenal built near Gray's Ferry. 

1801, January 21 — The Centre square water works begin operations. United States Navy Yard estab- 
lished. 

1807 — Spark's shot tower built in Southwark. 

1809 — Olympic Theatre built, northeast corner Ninth and Walnut streets. 

1814 — President Monroe visits the city. 

1815, February 17 — Illumination for peace with England. 

1819 — Work began on Fairmount water works. Vauxhall Garden, northeast corner Broad and Walnut 
streets, destroyed by a mob. 

1822 — Orphans' Asylum, Eighteenth and Cherry streets, burned; twenty-three children perished. 

1827— Penn Treaty monument erected. 

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1828 — Arch Street Theatre opened. 

1829 — Cornerstone laid of United States Mint, Juniper and Chestnut streets. 

1830, July 1 — James Porter hanged for mail robbery at Bush Hill. 

1831, December 31 — Death of Stephen Girard. 

1832, February 22 — Cornerstone of Merchants' Exchange laid. 
April 2 — Cornerstone of Moyamensing Prison laid. 

1833, February 22 — Cornerstone of Washington Monument laid in Independence square. 
June 8 — President Jackson visits the city. 

1836, February 8 — Philadelphia gas works v/ent into operation. 
February 22 — Ox roast on the frozen Delaware. 

1837, May 10 — Banks suspended specie payments. 

1838, May 17 — Pennsylvania Hall, Sixth and Haines streets, burned by a mob. 

May 18 — Colored Orphanage, Thirteenth street, above Callowhill, burned by a mob. 

1839, October 14 — Reception to President Van Buren. 

October 16 — First American daguerreotype, showing site of Wanamaker's. 

October 26 — The first High School, on Juniper street (included now in the store site), opened with 

four professors and sixty-three students. 

December 17 — Failure of the Schuylkill Bank, southeast corner of Sixth and Market streets — later 

the site of the first Wanamaker store. 

1840, July 27— Riots in Kensington. 

1841, April 20 — Funeral in memory of President Harrison. 
1843 — Reception to President Tyler. 

1844, May 6 — Riots in Kensington; ShifHer and others killed. 

May 8 — St. Michael's and St, Augustine's Churches burned. 

1847, April 19 — Illumination for the victories in Mexico. 
June 23 — Reception to President Polk. 

1848, April 25 — Cornerstone of St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church laid. 
February 24 — Reception to Henry Clay. 

October 20 — Charles Langfelt hanged for the murder of Mrs. Rademacher. 

1849, May 30 — Cholera commenced; ended September 8; 1012 deaths. 

1850 — Great fire, which began at Vine street wharf, destroys 367 buildings. 
1851, March 18 — Assembly Building, Tenth and Chestnut streets, burned. 

May 12 — Reception to President Fillmore. 

September 30 — Girard's remains removed to Girard College. 

December 24 — Reception to Louis Kossuth. 

December 30 — Barnum's Museum, Seventh and Chestnut streets, burned. 
1852 — Reception of the remains of Henry Clay. 

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1853, June 10 — Arthur Spring hanged for the murd'-r cf Honorah Shaw and Ellen Lynch. 

1854, February 2 — Passage of the Act consolidating Philadelphia. 

July 15 — Chinese Museum, Ninth and Sansom streets, and National Theatre, Chestnut street, below 
Ninth, burned. 

1855, February 4 — Jewish Foster Home, established. 

1857, March 12 — Funeral of Dr. Kane, the Arctic explorer. 
Opening of the Academy of Music with "II Trovatore." 
September 21 — Banks suspend. 

1858, January 20 — City passenger cars run for the first time, on Fifth and Sixth streets. Steam fire 
engines introduced. 

September 1 — Atlantic Cable celebration. 
1859 — Holy Trinity Church, Nineteenth and Walnut streets opened. 

Demolition begun of market sheds on Market street, between Eighth and Ninth. 
I860 — Bethany Presbyterian Church founded at Twenty-second and Bainbridge streets. 

Bishop Neuman falls dead at Thirteenth and Vine streets. 

February 16 — Continental Hotel open for guests. 

June 9 — Visit of Japanese Embassy. 

October 9 — Visit of the Prince of Wales. 
1861, January 4 — National Fast Day; fears cf secession. 

February 22 — Lincoln hoists the flag en Independence Hall. 

April 3 — Founding of the Wanamaker business. 

April 13 — Excitement at the news of the surrender of Fort Sumter. 

April 18 — Arrival of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, 

April 19 — Arrival of the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment. 

April 20 — Arrival of the Seventh New York Regiment. 

May 11 — Colonel Robert Anderson received at Independence Hall 

June 14 — Body of Lieutenant Greble lies in state at Independence Hall. 

September 14 — Fire in Continental Theatre; nine ballet girls fatally burned. 

November 7 — Remains of Colonel E. D. Baker lie in state at Independence Hall. 
1862 — The Wanamaker Store declared for shorter hours. 

April 18 — Reception to Parson Brownlow. 

April 20 — Cathedral on Eighteenth street, opened for vespers and Papal benediction. 

July 9 — Gold ISYz per cent, premium. Postage stamps and car tickets used as currency. 

December 18 — Gold 33 per cent, premium. 
1863 — Military authorities seize "The Evening Journal." 

February 25 — Gold reaches 72 per cent. 

June 16 — Mayor Henry calls on the citizens to suspend business and defend the city. 

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1864. June 7 — Great Sanitary Fair at Logan Square. 

June 16 — President Lincoln and wife visit the fair. 

November 20 — Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul consecrated. 
1885 — The Wanaiiiaker Store announces returnability of goods. 

Februarys — Coal oil fire at Ninth slreet and Washington avenue; fifty dwellings burned; several 

lives lost. 

April 3 — News of the fall of Richmond; illumination. 

April 15 — News of Lincoln's assassination; business suspended; universal drapery with black. 

April 22 — President Lincoln's body in state at Independence Hall. 

May 14 — New Union League House, Broad and Sansom streets, opened. 

July 4 — Great display of fireworks at Penn Square. 

August 28 — Volunteer Refreshment Saloon closed. 

November 1 — Body of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren lies in state in Independence Hall. 
1866, April 11 — Christopher Deering and family murdered by Antoine Probst. 

June 8 — Probst hanged. 

August 4 — Moyamensing Hall, which had been used as a cholera hospital, set on fire and burned. 

August 28 — Reception to President Johnson. 
1867 — Body of Professor A. D. Bache lies in state at the rooms of the American Philosophical Society. 

June 19 — American Theatre, Walnut street above Eighth, burned; ten persons killed. 
1868, October 5 — Reception to General McClellan. 

October 22 — Mrs. Mary E. Hill killed in her house, Tenth and Pine streets. George E. 

Twitchell, Jr., her son-in-law, arrested. 

December 5 — Gerald Eaton convicted of the murder of Timothy Heenan. 
1868, April 4 — The Beneficial Saving Fund robbed of $1,000,000 in bonds — afterward returned. 

April 8 — Suicide of Twitchell. Gerald Eaton hanged. 

June 8— Death of Rev. Father FeUx J. Barbelin, S. J. 

August 4 — Patterson's bonded warehouse. Front and Lombard streets, burned; loss over $2,000,000. 

1870, May 15 — German celebration at close of Franco-Prussian war. 
September 20 — Lincoln monument unveiled. 

1871, March 15 — New fire department installed in Philadelphia. 
December 1 — Reception to Grand Duke Alexis. 

1872, May 5 — First voyage of the "Pennsylvania," pioneer of the American line. 
July — Children's free excursions started. 

October — Outbreak of epizooty; travel interrupted. 

1873, September 18 — Suspension of Jay Cooke & Co. 
September 26 — Dedication of the new Masonic Temple. 

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1874, July !•:— Abduction of Charley Ross. 
July 4 — Cornerstone of City Hall laid. 

October 6 — Last exhibition of the Franklin Institute on site of the present Wanamaker Store. 
Last mule team till 1904, when mule teams were again necessary to haul the steel pillars for the new 
Wanamaker store. 

1875, November 20 — Market street bridge burned. 

November 21 — First Moody and Sankey revival meeting on the site of the present Wanamaker Store 

1876, March 12 — The present Wanamaker Store opened. 
May 10 — Centennial opened, lasting till November 10. 

September 28 — "Pennsylvania Day"; 275,000 persons at the Centennial. 

1877, May 15 — Ex-President Grant leaves the city on a tour of the world. 

1878, January 2 — First annual White Sale. 

December 26 — The Wanamaker Store the first in the world to be lit by electricity. 
1880 — Cash carriers introduced in the Wanamaker Store — in this a pioneer. 

November 20 — Children's Day started in the Store. 

December — Committee of One Hundred formed. 
1881, March 4 — Art Gallery established at Wanamaker's. 

November 5 — The Wanamaker Store enters Chestnut street at 1301. 
1882 — Bicentennial of the settlement of Philadelphia. 

October 6 — Bicentennial of Germantown's settlement. 

1885, June 1 — New Bullitt charter approved. 

1886, July 4 — The Store starts the Saturday half-holiday. 

1887, June 16 — Mr. Wanamaker addressed City Councils, urging that the city be given rapid transit. 

1888, March 12 — Blizzard Monday. 

1889 — The Pan-American Congress visits Philadelphia and the Wanamaker Store. 

1894, February 3— Death of George W. Childs. 

1895, December 30 — Bourse formally opened. 

1896, February 2 — Haseltine buildings burned; loss, nearly $1,500,000. 

September 29 — The Wanamaker Store announces the taking of the A. T. Stewart business. 

1897, January 26 — Fire sweeps the block embraced by Market, Filbert, Juniper , nd Thirteenth streets; loss 
nearly $1,125,000. 

April 21 — Twenty-fifth episcopal anniversary of Archbishop Ryan. 
May 15 — President McKinley unveils the Washington Monument. 
October 25 — Beginning of the jubilee to celebrate peace with Spain. 

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RITTENHOUSE PAPER MILL, GERMANTOWN 
Built seven years after Penn founded the city. Penn helped to rebuild it when destroyed 

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1899, February 11 — Snow, lasting two days; worst storm yet felt in the city. 

February 16 — Fire destroys 1224-26-28 Market street and part of St. John's Church; loss $700,000. 
April 15 — The Wanamaker Store enters the piano trade, and revolutionizes it. 
April 27 — President McKinley attends the unveiling of the bronze statue of Grant. 
December 31 — City Hall illuminated to greet the twentieth century. 

1901, July 1 — Temperature 102.8; hottest day Philadelphia had ever known. 
September 19 — Memorial services for President McKinley in all churches. 

1902, February 22 — Ground broken for the new Wanamaker Store. 
March 10 — Prince Henry of Prussia visits Philadelphia. 

October 13 — Mascagni, the composer, received by 5000 of his countrymen. 

November 8 — 80,000 persons view the body of Rev. Father VilUger, S. J., at St, Joseph's Collese. 

November 22 — New Central High School dedicated. President Roosevelt present. 

1904, July 11 — First steel pillar of the new Store planted by Mr. John Wanamaker. 
October 17 — American Week started by this Store. 

1905, February 16 — Death of Jay Cooke. 

May 31 — All-night telephones installed in Wanamaker's — the first store in the world. 

1906, June 4 — 2000 telephones placed in the Wanamaker Store. 

1907, June 4 — First parade of delivery wagons in Philadelphia by this Store. 

September 24 — Banquet to the Press of America and the Dry Goods trade for opening of new 

store in New York. 

October — Marconi messages received for transmission by this Store — the first in the v/orld. 

1908, August 3 — Opening of the Main Subway Station of the Wanamaker Store. 

October — Celebration of the two hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Phila- 
delphia. 

1909, February 8 — First pillar of the south wing of the new store planted by John Wanamaker. 
Summer — This Store ships underwear to the Peary expedition. 

October 11 — The Store re-enters Chestnut street. 
October 29 — The Japanese Commission visits the Store. 
November — First store in the world to put flying machines on sale. 



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CHAPTER III 
DICTIONARY OF LANDMARKS, ETC. 
Academy of Fine Arts. This society, organized in 1805, 
erected its first building on Chestnut street, above Tenth, 
and held annual exhibitions. In 1876 it completed and occu- 
pied the present building at Broad and Cherry streets, 100 
by 260 feet. The collection of sculpture and paintings is of 
the rarest historical interest. The building, with site, cost 
nearly $500,000. The building is in Venetian style. Over 
the entrance is a mutilated statue of the goddess Ceres, 
exhumed at Megara, Greece, many years ago. 
Academy of Natural Sciences. This society vi^as founded in 
1812. Its first museum was on Second street, north of Arch; 
its second was at Twelfth and George streets; its third was 
at Broad and Sansom streets. In 1876 it moved to the pres- 
ent quarters. Nineteenth and Race streets. The building is 
a massive Gothic structure, 186 by 83 feet. It contains 
extraordinary collections and a valuable library. 
Ambulance Service. The following gives the numbers of 
the police districts of the city and the location of the 
hospitals: 

Second — Howard Hospital, Broad and Catharine streets. 
Fifth — Children's Hospital, 207 South Twenty-second street. 
Fifth — Jefferson Hospital, Sansom street, above Tenth. 
Eleventh — St. Mary's Hospital, Frankford avenue and 
Palmer street. 

Twelfth — Children's Homoeopathic Hospital, Franklin 
street, below Thompson. 

Thirteenth — St. Timothy's Hospital, Roxborough. 
Fourteenth — Jewish Hospital, Branchtown. 
Fifteenth — Frankford Hospital, Frankford avenue and 
Wakeling street. 

Sixteenth — Presbyterian Hospital, Thirty-ninth street and 
Powelton avenue. 

Eighteenth — Episcopal Hospital, Front street and Lehigh 
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BIRTHPLACE OF OLD GLORY 

In 1777 the upholstery shop of Betsy Ross, 

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GLORIA DEI (OLD SWEDES') CHURCH 
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OLD SOUTHWARK SHOT TOWER 

Built in 1807 



Eighteenth— St. Christopher's Hospital, 2600 North Law- 
rence street. 

Nineteenth — Pennsylvania Hospital, Eighth and Spruce 
streets. 

Nineteenth — Polyclinic Hospital, Nineteenth and Lombard 
streets. 

Twentieth — Hahnemann Hospital, Fifteenth street, above 
Race. 

Twentieth — Medico-Chirurgical Hospital, Cherry street, 
below Eighteenth. 

Twenty-first — Philadelphia Hospital, Thirty-fourth and 
Spruce streets. 

Twenty-first — University Hospital, Thirty-sixth street and 
Woodland avenue. 

Twenty-second — Samaritan Hospital, 3403 North Broad 
street. 

Twenty-second — St. Luke's, 3818 North Broad street. 
Twenty-third — German Hospital, Corinthian and Girard 
avenues. 

Tv/enty-third — St. Joseph's Hospital, Seventeenth street 
and Girard avenue. 

Twenty-third — Women's Hospital, Twenty-second street 
and North College avenue. 

Twenty-fifth — Methodist Episcopal Hospital, Broad and 
Wolf streets. 

Twenty-fifth — Mt. Sinai Hospital, N. E. cor. Fifth and 
Wilder streets. 

Thirty-fourth — St. Agnes' Hospital, Broad and Mifflin 
streets. 
Thirty-fifth — Germantown Hospital, Germantown, 



Amusement Resorts. The following gives locations of the leading amusement resorts: 

Academy of Music, Broad and Locust streets. 

Adelphi Theatre, Broad street, above Cherry. 

Broad Street Theatre, Broad street, below Locust. 

Chestnut Street Opera House, Chestnut street, below Eleventh. 



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OLD BUILDING IN GERMANTOWN 
Supposed to have been built in 1760. The holes in the fence were made in the Battle of 

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Chestnut Street Theatre, Chestnut street, above Twelfth. 

Eleventh Street Opera House, minstrels; Eleventh street, above Chestnut. 

Forrest Theatre, Broad and Sansom streets. 

Garrick Theatre, Chestnut street, opposite Wanamaker's, 

Girard Avenue Theatre, 627 Girard avenue. 

Grand Opera House, Broad street and Montgomery avenue. 

Hammerstein's Opera House, Southwest corner of Broad and Poplar streets. 

Horticultural Hall, Broad street, below Locust. 

Keith's Theatre, Chestnut street, above Eleventh. 

Kensington Theatre, East Norris street and Frankford avenue. 

Lyric Theatre, corner Broad and Cherry streets. 

Musical Fund Hall, 806 Locust street. 

National Theatre, corner Tenth and Callowhill streets. 

Park Theatre, corner Broad street and Fairmount avenue. 

Walnut Street Theatre, corner Ninth and Walnut streets. 

American Philosophical Society, Independence Square, Fifth street, below Chestnut. Founded in 1768; 
erected present building in 1785. Its first president was Benjamin Franklin. 

Apprentices' Library. This institution, established by Benjamin Franklin, originally stood at the south- 
west corner of Fifth and Arch streets, across the street from the spot where its founder's dust reposes. 
The building was erected by subscription in 1783. With the city's westward growth the location was 
inconvenient for its patrons, and the Library was removed to the corner of Broad and Brandsrwine 
streets. 

Area of the City. Penn planned a city of 10,000 acres. The present area is 129.5 square miles, or over 
82,880 acres. 

Association Hall. In 1876 the Young Men's Christian Association began the erection of the imposing 
hall at Fifteenth and Chestnut streets. In 1908 it completed a new and up-to-date building on Arch 
street, west of Broad. 

Baltimore and Ohio Depot, Twenty-fourth and Chestnut streets. A tall clock tower is a prominent 
landmark, and the architecture harmonizes finely with Chestnut street bridge, close by. The waiting- 
room, on the second floor, is on a level with Chestnut street. All of the appointments are admirable. 

Bank of North America. This was the first incorporated bank in the United States, being created by 
Congress, December 31, 1781. Its operations commenced January 7, 1783, in the store belonging to its 
cashier, on the north side of Chestnut street, west of Third, the very spot where stands to-day the 
present building of the bank. The Bank of North America is the only national bank in the United 
States, with possibly one exception, that is permitted to omit the word "National" from its title, in its 
outstanding currency and other transactions. 

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THE CHEW HOUSE, GERMANTOWN 
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Bartram's Garden. Laid out by John Bartram, the celebrated botanist, at Gray's Ferry, on the Schuyl- 
kill, in 1728. Among the noted trees shown here is a cypress having a girth of more than twcnty-fiyt 
feet. The old Bartram hous^, built in 1731, is a quaint structure, with this inscription cut in stone by 

Bartram himself: 'Tis God alone, Almighty Lord, 

The Holy One by me adored. 

Belmont. Formerly called Judge Peters' Mansion, and one of th; chief attractions of the Park. The 

date of the erection of the building is fixed by the monogram, "T. W. P. 1744," cut on a slab set in tht 

wall. 

Benjamin Franklin's Grave. This is in Christ Church Cemetery, corner of Fifth and Arch streets. It 

is enclosed by a wall, the bricks in which had to be imported from England. An opening in the wsli 

permits a view of the memorial slab, and here many visitors to the city may be seen daily. 

Broad Street Station. At Broad and Market streets. A fine sample of Gothic architecture, elevea 

stories high, of granite and brick, with terra cotta trimmings. The main building is 306 feet front on 

Broad street and 212 feet on Market street. The train shed is the largest in the world. In the entire 

structure are 60,000,000 pounds of iron. One of two costly works of art in high stucco-relief, by Carl 

Bitter, is the colossal panel, "Transportation," which decorates the wall, facing the grand staircase. Th« 

conception as executed by the sculptor is a portrayal of the development of Transportation. 

Carpenters' Hall. This famous old building, south of Chestnut street, above Third, was built in 1724 by 

the Carpenters' Company, a society of carpenters and architects. During the Revolution it was uied 

as a hospital for sick American soldiers. It is now a historic museum. For picture see back of map. 

Cathedral. Eighteenth street, above Race. A massive and imposing brownstone edifice in the Roman 

Corinthian style. Built 1846-1864. The mas..we dome is visible for many miles. 

Continental Hotel. Named by Caleb Cope. Established in 1859 on the site of the burned Chinese 

Museum. 

Christ Church. This edifice reproduces the style of church architecture in vogue in London at the time 

of its erection. The present building was erected about 1727 to replace a one-story structure built fcs 

1695. The church has many historic and other associations. For picture see back of map. 

City Hall. This imposing office is just across the street from the Wanamaker Store. The cornerston« 

was laid July 4, 1874. The cost has been over $25,000,000. Four grand archways, 18 feet vnde and M 

feet high, give free transit to the ceaseless tide of humanity that pours through them daily. The tower 

is nearly twice as high as the dome of the Capitol at Washington and within eight feet as high as the 

Washington Monument. For picture see back of map. 

Clock in City Hall Tower. This clock has been called "Big Penn," to distingfuish it from anothcf 

famous clock, "Big Ben," of London. It began to keep time for the city and suburbs at midnight. 

December 31, 1898. The motive power is compressed air. The movement, hand-made and jeweleti 

throughout, required two years to produce. 

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The master clock is wound up once in thirty days; the auxiliary clock, once in eight days. An electric 
heater insures no greater variation than two degrees within the case. At noonday the time is telegraphed 
from the Observatory at Washington, as a check against error. 

The center of the dials is 361 feet IJ/2 inches from the ground level. Length of minute hand, 10 feet t 
inches. Weight of minute hand, 225 pounds. Weight of dial frame with glass, 5% tons. 
Every night, at 3 minutes of 9 o'clock, the lamps encircling the tower are extinguished. At 9 o'clock, 
precisely, they are relit, thus giving the correct time. In clear weather these signals can be seen for a 
distance of twenty-five miles. 

Betsy Ross House. The little upholstery shop, on Arch street, below Third, in which the first American 
flag was made. Washington wanted six-cornered stars used, but Betsy showed that a five-pointed star 
only needed one clip of the scissors, and Washington yielded. 

It is an interesting fact that the Betsy Ross House was originally built by William Penn as his 
"mansion," of bricks which he imported from England. It has seemed to many that there was some- 
thing prophetic in its dimensions — 17 by 76 feet — since it was in 177< 
that the flag was designed in this house. For picture see back of map. 

Commercial and Trade Organizations. The list of these is as follows: 
Maritime Exchange — Main floor, the Bourse. 
Board of Trade — 248 Bourse Building. 
Commercial Exchange — Main floor, the Bourse. 
Stock Exchange — Third and Walnut streets. 
Trades League — 207-11 Bourse Building. 

Vessel Owners' and Captains' Association — 111 Walnut street. 
Pilots' Association — 319 Walnut street. 

Board of Marine Underwriters — Office of Secretary, Maritime Exchange. 
Grocers' and Importers' Exchange — Main floor. Bourse. 
Drug Exchange — 252-3 Bourse Building. 

Produce Exchange — N. W. cor. Front and Chestnut streets. 
Philadelphia Bourse — Fifth street, below Market. 
Manufacturers' Club — 1409 Walnut street. 

National Association of Manufacturers — Real Estate Trust Building. 
Lumbermen's Exchange — 302 Crozer Building. 
Consolidated Stock Exchange — 435 Chestnut street. 
Master Builders' Exchange — 18-24 South Seventh street. 
Commercial Museum — South Thirty-fourth street, below Pine. 
Wholesale Grocers' Association of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Dela- 
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Merchants' Exchange — 103 South Fifteenth street. 

Coal Exchange — 3033 Chestnut street. 

Petroleum and Stock Exchange — 441 Chestnut street. 

Coupe and Hansom Service. Pennsylvania Railroad and Philadelphia and Reading Railway Omb- 

panies' cab, coupe and hansom service: 

Ten squares are equal to a mile. 

Hansom Fares — Leased to driver in charge. 

By the Trip — One and a half miles or less to one address, one or two persons, 25 cents; to twa 

addresses, 50 cents; each additional mile or fraction, 15 cents. 

To Call to go to Station — To call at any address within one and a half miles of the station for onic 

or two passengers going direct to the station, 25 cents; for each additional mile or fraction, 15 centft. 

By the Hour — First hour or fraction, one or two persons, 65 cents; each additional hour, one or two 

persons, 65 cents; each additional quarter hour or less, one or two persons, 20 cents. 

Four-wheeler (Coupe) Fares — Leased to driver in charge. 

By the Trip — One and a half miles or less, to one address, one or two persons, 40 cents; one and a half 

miles or less, to two addresses, one or two persons, 70 cents; for additional one or two passengersi, 1© 

cents; each additional mile or fraction, one or four persons, 20 cents. 

To Call to go to Station — To call at any address within one and a half miles from respective station-i, 

and go direct to said stations, one or two passengers, 40 cents. To call at any address exceeding ons 

and a half miles, for each additional mile or fraction, 20 cents. 

By the Hour — For the first hour or fraction thereof, one or four persons, 75 cents; for each additionslt 

hour, one or four persons, 75 cents; for each additional quarter hour or less, one or four persons, ^ 

cents. Valises, each, 10 cents; only chargeable when carried on top by driver. Trunks, 25 cents each. 

No trunks carried on hansoms. Not more than two trunks carried on a four-wheeler. 

Limits — East to Delaware River, west to Fiftieth street, north to Cambria street, south to Snyder ave- 
nue. For service beyond these limits, arrange with Assistant Superintendent of Cab Service, Broad 

Street Station. 

Daily Newspapers. The following gives the location of the newspaper offices: 

North American — Broad and Sanscm streets. 

Philadelphia Inquirer — 1109 Market street. 

Philadelphia Record — 919 Chestnut street. 

The Press— 700 Chestnut street. 

The Public Ledger — Sixth and Chestnut streets. 

Evening Telegraph — 704 Chestnut street. 

Evening Bulletin — Juniper and Filbert streets. 

Evening Times — 612 Chestnut street. 

Evening Item — Corner of Seventh and Ja5me streets. 

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Drexel Institute, Thirty-second and Chestnut streets. Founded by Anthony J. Drexel, with the assist- 
ance of George W. Childs. Opened December 17, 1891. The building is of light buff brick, eind meas- 
ures 200 by 200 feet. 

Elks' Home. Southeast corner of Juniper and Arch streets, one block north of Wanamaker's. It has 
a front of 42.6 feet and a depth of 135.6 feet. The exterior of the building is designed in the French 
Renaissance style, with the walls built of Sayre and Fisher brick, with Indiana limestone and terra- 
cotta trimmings. It is five stories in height, including the basement, kitchen, janitor's quarters and 
roof garden. 

Fairmount Park. Exclusive of Hunting Park and its 43 acres, Fairmount Park covers 3341.32 acres. 
Its nucleus was the acquirement by the city of five acres of Morris Hill, Twenty-fifth and Spring 
Garden streets, in 1812. In 1828 the Park grew to 28 acres. In 1865 the Lemon Hill estate was bought. 
About 1867, 140 acres, known as Lansdowne, at one time the country seat cf Governor John Penn, were 
purchased. One feature of this tract was "Solitude," now occupied by the Zoological Gardens. In 1868 
Georges' Hill, of 88 acres, was donated to the city. Subsequently other lands were acquired on both sides 
cf the river and both sides of Wissahickon Creek, The East and West Parks are united by an iron 
bridge at Girard avenue, which was opened July 4, 1874. Belmont Mansion, in West Park, was formerly 
the home of Judge Peters. Washington, Franklin, Lafayette and Jefferson loved to visit it. On the East 
Park drive is Mt. Pleasant, formerly the home of Benedict Arnold. 

Franklin Institute, Seventh street, above Chestnut. Founded in 1824. One of its last exhibitions was 
on the site of the Wanamaker Store, prior to the Centennial. 

Germantown. This suburb, founded in 1685 by German "Pietists," is rich in historic landmarks and 
associations — the home of Pastorius, the founder of the town; the Chew house; the house which Wash- 
ington occupied as the executive mansion during the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, etc. The first 
Moravian church in the United States was built in Philadelphia by Ccunt Zinzendorf, a resident of 
Germantown. 

Girard College. Founded by Stephen Girard, merchant, mariner and philanthropist, who gave the 
specific sum of $2,000,000 to build it, and the bulk cf his estate to endow it. The building, which 
occupies a site which Girard himself selected, Girard avenue, above Nineteenth street, was opened 
January 1, 1848. The weight of the tiled roof is estimated at nearly 1000 tons. Above the sarcophagus 
in the south vestibule, containing Girard's dust, is a fine statue of the philanthropist. For picture of the 
college see back of map. 

Girard Trust Building. This imposing white marble edifice at the northwest corner of Broad and Chest- 
nut streets, with its massive dome and Pantheon-like design, was completed and occupied in the 
summer of 1908. Architects concede it to be one of the most striking structures in the world. 

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Heights of Prominent Buildings. Tiiese figures will be of interest not only to visitors, but to many 
Philadelphians: 

City Hall Tower 547 ft. 3^ in. Reading Terminal 152 ft. 

New Wanamaker Store 247 ft. Penn Mutual Insurance Building 205 ft. 

Girard College 97 ft. Provident Life and Trust Building 152 ft. 

Broad Street Station (main tower) 240 ft. Holy Trinity P. E. Church Tower 150 ft. 

Post Office Dome 170 ft. Athletic Club of Schuylkill Navy 179 ft. 

Cathedral Dome 210 ft. Christ P. E. Church Steeple 190 ft. 

Betz Building .' 194 ft. 

liigh Street. Original name of Market street. Retained in city directories till 1854. 

Horticultural Hall in the Park. One of the original Centennial buildings. This is a great conservatory, 
standing upon a bluff overlooking the Schuylkill, which lies one hundred feet below to the eastward. 
The original cost of the building was $252,000, but many additional thousands have been expended 
upon it. One famous feature is the "Sunken Garden." On a line with this is the Catholic Total Absti- 
nence Fountain, erected in 1876, and notable for its fine statuary. 

House Numbers. The houses of Philadelphia are systematically numbered, on the basis of the street 
plan adopted by Penn. The present system was introduced in 1856. Each square is the equivalent of 
100. Thus, at Front street, the first number going west is 100; at Second street, 200, etc. The same plan 
is followed with streets running north and south, the starting point being Market street. Thus 800 
north is eight squares from Market street, and 800 west is at Eighth street, and eight squares from Front 
street. It will be noted that on going west from Front the even numbers will be on the left-hand side, 
and the odd numbers on the right-hand, and the same on going north from Market; but in going south 
from Market the left or east side retains the odd numbers, and the west side the even numbers. 

Independence Hall. This famous old shrine of patriotic sentiment, on Chestnut street, below Sixth, 
was built in 1729-34, and in October, 1735, was first used as a State House. From 1775 to 1800 it was 
used by the Colonial Congress, and by the State Legislature till 1804. Here the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence was signed on July 4, 1776, and here also the Constitution of the United States was adopted in 
1787. In 1790 Congress came back to this city, and this building was the Capitol for ten years. In 
the building at Sixth and Chestnut streets Washington and Adams were inaugurated for their second 
term; and Jefferson in 1797. For picture of Independence Hall see back of map. 

Lamb Tavern Road. A favorite drive years ago. It ran northwest from Turner's lane and Broad street 
to Nicetovi/^n lane. 

League Island Naval Station, League Island, at the junction of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, 
was bought by the city in 1862 for $310,000 and presented to the Government as a naval station, for 
which it has been used since 1876 when the old navy yard was dismantled. It is four miles due south 
of the Wanamaker Store. 

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BARTRAM'S MANSION, WEST PHILADELPHIA 
Front view of porch. Erected in 1731, in the midst of the most famous Botanical 

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Lemon Hill. One of the most famous landmarks of Fairmount Park. It was built by Henry Pratt, who 
also laid out the beautiful Pratt's Garden. Mr. Pratt was an eminent shipping merchant, and Hved 
at the northeast corner of Juniper and Chestnut streets — now a portion of the Wanamaker Store site. 
Libraries and Museums. Free Library, main quarters, 1217-1221 Chestnut street, with various branches 
throughout the city. Among the more notable are: 

Wagner Institute branch, Seventeenth street and Montgomery avenue. 

V/est Philadelphia branch, Fortieth and Walnut streets. 

H. Josephine Widener branch, 1200 North Broad street. 

John Wanamaker branch, 2123-2127 South street. 

Department for the Blind, 1221 Chestnut street. 

Philadelphia Library, Locust and Juniper streets. 

Ridgway Branch, Broad street, between Carpenter and Christian. 

Mercantile Library, Tenth street, above Chestnut. 

American Philosophical Society, Fifth street, below Chestnut. 

Academy of Natural Sciences, Nineteenth and Race streets. 

College of Physicians, Twenty-second, above Chestnut street. 

Commercial Museum, Fourth street, below Walnut. 

American Catholic Historical Society, 715 Spruce street. 

Franklin Institute, Seventh street, below Market. 

Pennsylvania Historical Society, Thirteenth and Locust streets. 

Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park, via Girard avenue cars. 

Apprentices' Library, Broad and Brandywine streets. 

Lover's Leap.- A romantic glen on the west side of the Wissahickon, 

having a rocky bluff 200 feet high, with an inscription in Latin, telling 

the story of ill-fated love, carved by John Kelpius. 

Lulu Temple. This temple, on Spring Garden street, east of Broad, was 

built by the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in 1903. The order consists of 

Masons of the thirty-second degree, or Knights Templars. The building 

is 76 feet front, and runs back to Brandywine street. The architecture 

is Moorish. As an auditorium it can seat 1500. In the music gallery is 

a $10,000 organ. 

Mantua Village. A portion of West Philadelphia since 1854. It was named from the Italian city, and 
was the residence of a number of Italians. 

Masonic Temple. This temple, called "the wonder of the Masonic world," has fronts on Broad, Cuth- 
bert. Juniper and Filbert streets. The site was purchased in 1866, the cornerstone laid June 24, 1868, 
and the Temple dedicated September 28, 1878. The cost was over $1,500,000, and a vast sum has since 
been spent on ornamentation, etc. For picture see back of map. 

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MENNONITE CHURCH, GERMANTOWN 
Refuge of the Mennonites, offered by Penn; erected in 1708. 



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Memorial Hall. The most important souvenir of the great Centennial Exhibition. It is now a museum 
and art gallery, and is visited by thousands daily. Opposite the Hall is the Welsh Memorial Fountain, 
erected by citizens in grateful memory of the president of the Centennial. See picture on back of map. 
Minstrelsy. It was in Philadelphia that "Pinafore" first struck the American fancy; and this city has 
the only permanent home of minstrelsy in the world. It was here that nearly all the popular ballads 
of bygone days had their send-off — "Vilikins and His Dinah," "Lily Dale," "Rosalie, the Prairie Flower," 
the gems of Foster, the war songs, etc.; and the best of them have not failed to be revived for the 
Store's anniversaries, and other suitable occasions. 

Musical Culture. With two of the finest opera houses on earth, with an operatic society, with many 
conservatories, orchestras and vocal societies of first rank, and vnth free concerts in one of the finest 
auditoriums in the country — Egyptian Hall, at Wanamaker's — Philadelphia is fast attesting her claim 
to be the musical centre of America. The movem.ent that way got a new impetus with the revolu- 
tion in the piano trade in this city and this Store; and the manufacturers who resisted it are now among 
the loudest in praise of its wisdom. 

Musical Fund Hall. Philadelphia has the oldest theatre in America — the Walnut, opened in 1809 — and 
also the most up-to-date theatres. It also has one of the first store auditoriums in the country — 
Egyptian Hall — and one of the most noted concert halls in the world for acoustics, the old Musical 
Fund Hall. The "Dictionary of Philadelphia" (1886) said: "This was built in 1844 by the Musical Fund 
Society, and its name recalls memories of Sonntag, Jenny Lind, Alboni and Grisi. It was in this hall, at 
a later period, that Signor Natali Perelli, the Italian maestro, gave his well-remembered concerts with 
such pupils as Miss Caroline McCaffrey, contralto, now Mrs. School, who also won fame later in oratorio 
as soloist with the Handel and Haydn Society; Miss Emily von Schaumberg, now Mrs. Hughes Hallett, 
and others. Perelli rests in Woodland Cemetery. In this hall Parepa had her first hearing in America, 
and here, too, Susan Galton charmed thousands in concert." 

Music in the Schools. A new impetus to the city's musical development has been given by the intro- 
duction of systematic musical training in the public schools, under Director Enoch W. Pearson and 
his eighteen assistants. A little over twelve years ago singing was taught by ear only, and in a hap- 
hazard way, each pupil contributing a few pennies each week. Now music reading at sight is taught by all 
the schools, from lowest to highest, at much less expense to the community, and by a system so simple 
and so well graded that the lessons are enjoyed by nearly all of the pupils. The results have surprised 
many educators Part singing is now heard, and to many eighth-grade children even Wagner's music 
presents no difficulty. Music is nov/ taught in the schools of many cities, but the Philadelphia system 
is admitted to be pre-eminent by visitors from other places. 

New York. In a "Dictionary of Philadelphia," published in 1886. there is a brief reference to New York 
City, which makes quaint reading now in the light of that city's development. The paragraph said: 

New York City is the second thought of every business man in Philadelphia, and hundreds of manufacturers here have offices ot agency or 
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CLIFTON HALL 

A historic country seat near Overbrook, Erected by Henry Lewis in 16S2. Wash- 
ington, Lafayette, Franklin, Talleyrand and other famous men of the 
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market. There is much truth in this claim, although a spirit of patriotic resistance is always kept up, and most men will denounce New York 
vigorously, if only on generad principles. It is clearly a duty to keep that aggressive city in check, and to speak with severity of its misdeeds, 
but it is w^se also to go there frequently to see what is going on, to keep posted as to its markets, and to read such of its newspapers as are 
properly conducted. 

When that was printed the population of New York and the outlying boroughs was little if ansrthing 
over 2,000,000 souls. By a local census of 1905 the population of the city was then 4,014,304, and the 
growth in people, which still goes on, is but an index of growth in all substantial ways — in the number 
of banks in the clearing house, now numbering at least 54, and in the figures of her commerce— the 
total foreign imports in 1906 were $888,995,918, and the total exports $678,733,817. Clearly, somebody 
has shirked the duty of keeping "that aggressive city in check." 

Odd ti"ellows' Temple. This is one of the finest buildings for fraternal use in the United States. It is 
built in the Italian Renaissance style, and here the Sovereign Grand Lodge held its daily session during 
the eighty-first session in September, 1905. 

Old Names of Suburban Districts. The following were the original names of various city suburbs. 

Angora, 46th and 40th wards Oak Lane, 42d ward Holmesburg, 35th and 41st wards 

Belmar, 28th ward Overbrook, 34th ward Lawndale, 3,5th ward 

Blue Bell Hill, 21st ward Paschalville, 40th ward Rising Sun, 33d ward 

Branchtown, 42d ward Pelham, 22d ward Rittenhouse, 21st \)vard 

Bridesburg, 45th ward Elberon, 35th ward Rowlandville, 35th ward 

Bustleton, 35th ward Elmwood, 27th v/ard Roxborough, 21st ward 

Byberry, 35th ward Falls of Schuylkill, 38th ward Somerton, 35th ward 

Cedar Grove, 35th ward Feltonville, 42d ward Somerville, 42d ward 

Chestnut Hill, 22d ward Fern Rock. 42d ward Tacony, 41st ward 

CoUegeville, 41st ward Five Points, 35th ward Tioga, 38th ward 

Coopersville. 33d ward Frankford, 23d ward Torresdale, 41st ward 

Crescentville, 42d and 35th wards Franklinville, 33d ward Whitehall, 23d ward 

Manayunk, 21st ward Germantown, 22d ward Wissahickon, 22d ward 

Mechanicsville, 35th ward Haddington, 34th ward Wissinoming, 41st ward 

Nicetown, 33d and 38th wards Hestonville, 34th ward 

Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church. The only Colonial Presbyterian Church building in the city. Com- 
pleted in 1768. Dr. Duffield, who was elected Chaplain of the Continental Congress, was also Chaplain 
of the Pennsylvania Militia or "Minute Men," and served in the field. Dr. Hill, of the first church, has 
said that Old Pine Street Church deserved to be classed with Faneuil Hall and Carpenters' Hall. The 
portrait of Chaplain Duffield hung for years in the east room, Independence Hall, and was later removed 
to an upper room. 

Old Swedes' Church, South Swanson street, below Christian. Its erection was begun May 28, 1698. 
The bell in the spire was cast in 1643 and bears the inscription: "I to the church the living call, and to 
the grave do summon all." 

Open Hours at Places of Interest. The following list will be found of interest by strangers in the city: 
Academy of the Fine Arts, North Broad street, corner Cherry; open 9 to 5; Sundays, 1 to 5. 
Academy of Natural Sciences, North Nineteenth street, corner Race; 9 to 5; Sundays, 1 to 5. 

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FIRST PICTURE EVER MADE OF THE WANAMAKER STORE BLOCK 

Drawn in London in 1683. 



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Baldwin Locomotive Works, North Broad street, corner Spring Garden. 
Bartram's Gardens, Fifty-fourth street, corner V/oodland avenue. 
Betsy Ross House, 239 Arch street; 8.30 to 5.30; closed Sundays. 

Boys' High School, Broad and Green streets. 




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ST. PETER'S CHURCH 

Third and Pine Streets — Washington had a 

pev/ in it. 



Bourse, South Fifth street, above Chestnut; 9 to 5; clotsed 
Sundays. 

Carpenters' Hall, rear 322 Chestnut street; 9 to 3; closed 
Sundays. 

Chew Mansion, Germantown avenue, corner Johnson 
street. 

Christ Church, North Second street, above Market. 
Christ Church Cemetery, North Fifth street, corner Arch. 
City Hall, opposite Wanamaker's; 9 to 3; Saturdays, 9 to 
12; closed Sundays. 

Commercial Museum, South Thirty-fourth street, below 
Spruce. 

Cramps' Shipyard, Beach street, corner Ball. 
Custom House, Chestnut street, below Fifth; 9 to 4; closed 
Sundays. 

Drexel Institute, Thirty-second and Chestnut streets; 9 
to 6; closed Sundays. 

Penitentiary, Twenty-first street, corner Fairmount ave- 
nue; 1 to 5; closed Saturdays and Sundays. 
Fairmount Park. 

Franklin Institute, South Seventh street, below Market. 
Open Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 A. M. to 10 P. M.; Sat- 
urdays 9 to 5. Closed Sundays. 
Franklin's Tomb, North Fifth street, corner Arch. 
Free Library of Philadelphia, Chestnut street, above South 
Twelfth. Open 9 to 9. Closed Sundays. 
Free Museum of Science and Art, South Thirty-third 
street, corner South. Open 10 to 5. 

General Grant's Log Cabin, North Lemon Hill, Fairmount 
Park. 

Girard College, Girard avenue, above North Nineteenth 
street. 

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"STENTON" 
Home of the Logan family, near Wayne Junction. Was completed in 1728. 

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Girls' High School, Seventeenth and Spring Garden streets. 

Historical Society, South Thirteenth street, corner Locust. 

Horticultural Hall, Fairmount Park. 

Independence Hall, Chestnut street, below South Sixth. Open 9 to 4. Closed Sundays. 

Liberty Bell. (See Independence Hall.) 

Masonic Temple, North Broad street, corner Filbert. 

Master Builders' Exchange, South Seventh street, below Market. Open 8 to 5; Saturdays 8 to 4. Closed 

Sundays. 

Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park. Open 9 to 5.30; Mondays 12 to 5.30; Sundays, 1 to 5.30. 

Moyamensing Prison, Passyunk avenue, above Dickinson street. Open 10 to 11.30; Saturdays 2 to 4. Closed 

Sundays. 

Museum of the Site and Relic Society of Germantown, 5213 Germantown avenue. 

Odd Fellov/s' Temple, North Broad street, corner Cherry. Open 10 to 4. Closed Sundays. 

Old Swedes' Church, South Swanson street below Christian. 

Penn Treaty Monument, Beach street, north of East Columbia avenue. 

Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, Scuth Broad street, corner Pine. 

Philadelphia City Institute, 1737 Chestnut street. 

Philadelphia Commercial Museum, South Thirty-fourth street, below Spruce. Open 9 to 5. Closed 

Sundays. 

Philadelphia Stock Exchange, South Third street, corner Walnut. Open 10 to 3; Saturdays 10 to 12. 

Closed Sundays. 

Philadelphia Institute, Arch street, above Broad. 

Post Office, South Ninth street, corner Chestnut. 

Ridgway Library, South Broad street, corner Christian. 

Roman Catholic High School, corner Broad and Vine streets. 

U. S. Arsenal, Bridesburg. 

U. S. Mint, North Sixteenth street, corner Spring Garden. Open 9 to 2; Saturda}^ 9 to 11. Closed Sundays. 

U. S. Naval Asylum, Gray's Ferry avenue, below Bainbridge street. 

U. S. Navy Yard, League Island. Open 8 to 4.30. 

Union League, corner Broad and Sansom streets. 

University of Pennsylvania, South Thirty-fourth street, corner Spruce. 

Wagner Free Institute of Science, Montgomery avenue, corner North Seventeenth street. Open 9 to 5. 

Closed Sundays. 

Washington Monument, Green street entrance, Fairmount Park. 

William Penn's Cottage, west end of Girard avenue bridge. 

Young Men's Christian Association, 1423 Arch street. 

Zoological Gardens, North Thirty-fifth street, corner Girard avenue. Open 9 to 5. 

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Opera Houses. The American Academy of Music is at the southwest corner of Broad and Locust streets. 
The cornerstone was laid on July 26, 1855, and it was opened by a magnificent ball on January 26, 1857. 
The architecture is in the Italian Byzantine style. The height of the building is 60 feet; width on Bro£^ 
street, 140 feet; depth on Locust street, 88 feet. The seating capacity is 2900 seats, with standing room 
for about 600 more. 

Hammerstein's new Opera House, southwest corner of Broad and Poplar streets, is an up-to-date struc- 
ture, rivalling the finest opera houses in Europe in seating capacity, acoustics, etc. A conservatory for 
the culture of promising voices will be one of the features. 

Prisons. The old city prison was on Walnut street till 1830, when it was torn down, and Moyamensing 
Prison established at Tenth and Reed streets. A prison at the corner of Broad and Arch streets was 
taken down in 1837. The Eastern Penitentiary, Twenty-first street and Fairmount avenue, was built 
in 1829. 

Reading Terminal. Twelfth and Market streets, one block east of Wanamaker's. Frontage on Market 
street, 266 feet; on Twelfth street, 107 feet. It is eight stories high, cf New England granite to second 
floor, and above that of pink-tinted brick and white terra cotta. All the conveniences are at hand — 
restaurant, coupe service, telephones, etc. 

Ridgway Library. Founded by Dr. James Rush, who chose the site at Broad and Christian streets. 
The building is of granite, 220 feet front by 105 deep, with three deep porticoes in Doric architecture. 
It contains the Loganian library, and is one of the model libraries cf the land. 

School of Design for Women. This institution, at the southwest corner of Broad and Master streets, 
was formerly the home of the great tragedian, Edwin Forrest. 

Spring Garden Institute. At the northeast corner of Broad and Spring Garden streets. It is a semi- 
free school for drawing and mechanical handiwork, and has become an important factor in the city's 
educational and material advancement. 

St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church. This edifice is on Fourth street, between Race and Vine. 
It is the oldest Methodist church building in the world, and the first in the United States in which a 
conference was regularly organized. The first love feast in this country was held here in March, 1770. 
During the Revolution the British army used it as a cavalry school, and after the Battle of Brandsnvine 
it was used as a hospital. 

Statues of Penn. The most notable public statues of Penn in Philadelphia are the life-sized bronze pre- 
sented to the Pennsylvania Hospital by his grandson, John Penn, and standing on the lawn on the Pine 
street side of the building; and the colossal bronze figure of Penn surmounting City Hall. For details 
of the latter see back of map. 

Street Car Routes. The following shows the directions in which the street cars run: 
Northward Bound— On Third, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Sixteenth, Eighteenth, 
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Southward Bound— On Second, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Tenth, Twelfth, Fifteenth, Seventeenth. 
Nineteenth, Twentieth, Fifty-second, Sixtieth, Passyunk avenue. Ridge avenue, Germantown avenue, 
York road. 

Eastward Bound — On Dauphin, Lehigh avenue, Allegheny avenue, Erie avenue, Norris, Columbia 
avenue. Jefferson, Girard avenue, Wallace, Green, Spring Garden, Callowhill, Race, Arch, Filbert, Mar- 
ket, Chestnut, Spruce, Lombard, Bainbridge, Wharton, Morris, Woodland avenue. 
Westward Bound — On York, Lehigh avenue, Erie avenue, Susquehanna avenue, Columbia avenue, Mas- 
ter, Girard avenue, Fairmount avenue. Spring Garden, Vine, Arch, Market, Sansom, Walnut, Pine, 
South, Catharine, Ellsworth, Tasker, Federal, Woodland avenue. 

Streets. The streets are laid out in the main as Penn planned them — systematically, and as a rule 
at right angles with each other.. As the city grew northwardly, the streets were named after coun- 
ties of the State; and with the growth southward the names of the Governors were to some extent 
adopted. (See house numbers.) 



North of Market Street 



South of Market Street 



100 Arch 

200 Race 

300 Vine 

400 Callowhill 

500 Buttonwood 

600 Green 

700 Fairmount Avenue 

800 Brown 

900 Poplar 
1000 Otter 
1100 George 
1200 Girard Avenue 
1300 Thompson 
1400 Master 
1500 Jefferson 
1600 Oxford 
1700 Columbia Avenue 
1800 Montgomery Avenue 
1900 Berks 
2000 Norris 
2100 Diamond 
2200 Susquehanna Avenue 
2300 Dauphin 
2400 York 



2500 Cumberland 

2600 Huntingdon 

2700 Lehigh Avenue 

2800 Somerset 

2900 Cambria 

3000 Indiana Avenue 

3100 Clearfield 

3200 Allegheny Avenue 

3300 Westmoreland 

3400 Ontario 

3500 Tioga 

3600 Venango 

3700 Erie Avenue 

3800 Butler 

3900 Pike 

4000 Luzerne 

4100 Lycoming 

4200 Juniata 

4300 Bristol 

4400 Cayuga 

4500 Wingohocking 

4600 Courtland 

4700 Wyoming 

4800 Louden 



100 Chestnut 

200 Walnut 

300 Spruce 

400 Pine 

500 Lombard 

600 South 

700 Bainbridge 

800 Catharine 

900 Christian 
1000 Carpenter 
1100 Washington Avenue 
1200 Federal 
1300 Wharton 
1400 Reed 
1500 Dickinson 
1600 Tasker 
1700 Morris 
1800 Moore 
1900 Mifflin 
2000 McKean 
2100 Snyder Avenue 
2200 Jackson 
2300 Wolf 
2400 Ritner 



2500 Porter 

2600 Shunk 

2700 Oregon Avenue 

2800 Johnson 

2900 Bigler 

3000 Pollock 

3100 Packer 

3200 Curtin 

3300 Geary 

3400 Hartranft 

3500 Hoyt 

3600 Pattison 

3700 Beaver 

3800 Hastings 

3900 Thirty- ninth AvenMe 

4000 Fortieth Avenue 

4100 Forty-first Avenue 

4200 Forty-second Avenue 

4300 Forty- third Avenue 

4400 Forty- fourth Avenue 

4500 Forty-fifth Avenue 

4600 Schuylkill Avenue 

4700 Government Aven«e 

4800 League Island 



Subway. Shortly after the old freight sheds at Thirteenth and Market streets were replaced by a 
modern store, there was general agitation for a better transit system to and from central Philadel- 
phia. On June 16, 1887, the founder of this business addressed City Councils, urging that steps 
be taken to give this city better railway facilities. He pointed out that this was no new subject 



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to him, and that five or six years previously he had been before Councils and had urged the build- 
ing of elevated roads. 

When the present Elevated and Subway franchises v/ere granted, the founder of this business 
offered the city ^2,500,000 for the rights then conferred. 

Active steps for the construction of the present Subway followed the formation of the present Piiila- 
delphia Rapid Transit Company. 

V/crk was begun in the first section of the Subway, reaching from the Schuylkill River to Bread 
Street Station, on April 7, 1903. This section was completed and, together with the Elevated Road 
running to Sixty-ninth street, was opened for travel on December 18, 1905. 

Work on the section east of City Hall, the most important link in the Subv/ay, was begun on 
June 1, 1806, and v/as formally opened to travel August 3, 1908. In a booklet issued in honor of 
the occasion the Wanamaker Store said: 

"The completion of this Subway marks an epoch in the history of Philadelphia. 
"It directly links Wanamaker's, the main Subway Station, with the railroads of New Jersey cen- 
tering at the ferries, with the great traffic systems of the Penns3dvania and Reading Railroads, v/ith 
the netv/ork of suburban trolley lines centering at various points in the city, and spreading like spider- 
webs all over the surrounding counties. 

"The volume of traffic that will flow through this immense underground system will probably only 
be limited by its capacity. In the surrounding States it virtually links ten millions of people to 
Wanamaker's, the Main Subway Station. 

"Sweeping around City Hall or coming west from the ferry, the express Subway cars stop at a brilliantjy 
lighted, block-long platform, which seems to be the path of a veritable city underground. 
"There are immense wide walks, more than a block long, with throngs passing to and fro. Electric 
radiance shines everywhere. 

"Behind the south platform are six immense show windows filled with attractive merchandise. 
Over the windows and entrance are illuminated signs. 
"It is Wanamaker's, The Main Subway Station Store. 

"It is an all-day and all-night Public Station. From all the Chestnut street doors from Juniper to 
Thirteenth street it connects with the Subway Station. 

"The platforms begin just east of City Hall and end at the opposite side of Thirteenth street. There 
are two entrances into Wanamaker's. One from the Market street front is connected with direct 
stairways to the street — so that whether the store be open or shut it serves as an entrance and an 
exit for passengers. 

"The other entrance is from Thirteenth street just south of the great corner show window. This is for 
the special convenience of Wanamaker patrons and is only open when the store is open. 

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"This underground city, its brilliant windows and wide entrances, is on a level with the basement of 
the new building of the Wanamaker Store. Passengers are from this level whisked in express ele- 
vators to any part of the gjreat building they may desire to visit. 

"Beneath this level — on a line with the sub-basement of the store — is the entrance to the loop around 
which pass the surface cars that enter the Subway at the Schuylkill River." 

Taxicab Service. The Pennsylvania Taximeter Cab Co., 1407 Locust street (Bellevue-Stratford), 
announces the following rates for taxicabs: 

Distance — First half mile or fraction 30c 

Each quarter mile thereafter 10c 

Waiting — For every six minutes 10c 

Cabs will be promptly dispatched, day or night, on call by telephone, to any address within half a mile of 
stations, free cf charge, but where distance is over half a mile, a charge of 20c for each additional 
mile or fraction thereof will be made. When cab is dismissed at any point over three miles from 
City Hall, passenger must pay for return service at 20c a mile for every mile or fraction thereof above 
three miles.. Ferriage and tells must be paid by passenger. 
(Company reserves right to change tariff without notice.) 

The BergdoU Motor Car Co., Central Station, 323-25-27 North Broad street, announces the following: 
Tariff — for one to four persons: 

First half mile, or fraction thereof SOc 

Each quarter mile thereafter lOc 

Each six minutes of waiting lOc 

Extras: 

For each package or small trunk carried outside 20c 

Cabs will be promptly dispatched, day or night, on call by telephone, to any address within half a mile 
of station, free of charge, but where distance is over half a mile, charge of 20c for each additional mile or 
fraction thereof will be made. V/hen cab is dismissed at any point over three miles from City Hall, pas- 
senger must pay for return service at 20c a mile for every mile or fraction thereof above three miles. 
Ferriage and tolls must be paid by passenger. 
(Company reserves right to change tariff without notice.) 

The Taximeter automatically computes distance traveled and waiting time consumed. 
The Taximeter is out of control of driver, except to put in operation at beginning and out of opera- 
tion at end of service. 

Passenger is afforded protection against error or overcharge by observing: 
1st. When engaging a cab the ilag "For Hire" is displayed over the instrument. 

*id. When cab is engaged, the driver immediately lowers the flag from an upright to a downward 
position. 

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The amount under "Extras" together with the amount "under "Fare" will constitute correct charge. 
Passengers are warned to pay only the sum of these two indications. 

Travel. Travel stands for commerce, civilization; and Philadelphia has done these things for travel: 
The mariner's quadrant invented here, 1730. 
The electric current now used in trolleys and automobiles, 
first caught by Franklin in 1749. 
The first Arctic expedition fitted out here, 1753. 
The first steam vessel invented here by John Fitch, 1786. 
The first turnpike in the United States, to Lancaster, 1792. 
The first voyage from Philadelph'a to Lake Erie, 1795. 
Oliver Evans' first steam land carriage, precursor of the 
automobile, driven around Centre Square, 1804. 
First experimental railway track built in Northern Liber- 
ties, 1809. 

Finest subway in the world — the agitation for it led by 
this Store over twenty-five years ago. 
Greatest locomotive plant in the world in Philadelphia. 
One of the finest shipbuilding plants in the world in Phila- 
delphia. 

Largest car and car-truck factory in the land in Philadel- 
phia. 

Philadelphia agitation and capital initiated the Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad in 1346. 

Pennsylvania Railroad makes record trip from Jersey City 
to San Francisco in 83 hours 59 minutes 16 seconds on 
June 1, 1876. 

Wanamaker's the first Philadelphia Store to send buyers 
abroad, 1876. 

Centennial exhibition, the greatest travel-promoting event 
in the country's history, 1876. 

Wanamaker's the first American Store to establish direct 
shipping connections with Paris. 

Wanamaker's becomes the Main Subway Station Store, 
August 3, 1908. 

SO 




CopyriRht 1908 by 
John Wanamaker 



Sketched Expressly for 
tbe Wanamaker Store 



INDIAN CAVES OF THE WISSAHICKON 
Tenanted by the aborigines when Penn came. 



THE V7ANAMAKER PRIMER OF PHILADELPHI 



Union League. A patriotic social body, formed November 21, 1862. In 1863 new quarters were found 
in the Kuhn mansion, Chestnut street, above Eleventh. In May, 1865, the club built the building on 
Broad street, below Sansom, which it has greatly enlarged and improved. It raised many regiments 
for tlie Government in the war time. 

United States Mint. The first mint was on Seventh street; the second, on Chestnut street, opposite 
this Store; the third is at Sixteenth and Spring Garden streets. It has a steel roof, laid in concrete. 
Among the interesting features shown visitors are the bronze doors, the mosaic panels, the grand 
stairway, and the various processes through which the metals pass in coinage. For picture see back 
of map. 

University of Pennsylvania. Thirty-fourth and Spruce streets. It was founded in 1740 as a charitable 
school by Benjamin Franklin and others. The Medical School was founded in 1765, and the Law 
School in 1805. In 1875 the University moved to its present location. In 1878, the Dental School was 
founded; in 1881, the Wharton School of Finance and Economy; in 1882, the Veterinary School and 
Hospitals; in 1883, the School of Biology; in 1888, the School for Nurses; in 1891, the Graduate School 
for Women; in 1892, the Wistar Institute of Anatomy. 

Vaults for Fur Storage. The use of cold vaults for the preservation of furs from moths and other 
perils is a modern idea which finds best scientific exemplification in the Fur Storage Vaults on the 
tenth floor of the Wanamaker Store. The vaults have concrete walls, to keep out moisture. The floors 
are 2 feet thick, and are lined with cork, for the same purpose of perfect dryness. A uniform tem- 
perature of 20 degrees is maintained, or 12 degrees below freezing point. The cold air is generated 
outside of the building, and is pumped into the vaults in a steady stream, so that the air is always 
circulating. There are no pipes to cause dampness. Fur rugs are provided for the comfort of visitors, 
who feel the changes of temperature at the entrances, of which there are three. Fur preservation, how- 
ever, is not all a matter of refrigeration, but is also largely a matter of care by trained people. Every 
garment in the vault is hung separately. Every rug is laid out flat. There is absolutely no trace of 
dust. Another point — there is no clutter — there is room in this vault for 12,000 muffs alone. The ad- 
vantage of plenty of space is twofold: it allows circulation of air around every piece of fur, and it 
allows for the close inspection, which mechanical perfection cannot supersede. 

Wanamaker Store. Ground was broken for the new Wanamaker Store, February 22, 1902. The first 
steel column was set in position by Mr, John Wanamaker, July 11, 1904. The edifice, wholly of granite 
built around a steel frame, extends a distance of 250 feet on Market and Chestnut streets and 476 feet 
along Juniper and Thirteenth streets. It is tv/elve stories high above ground and 247 feet high from the 
level of the curb, and there are three stories below the street level. 

The ground has an unbroken area of 250 by 488 feet, or 122,000 square feet. The new building, when 
complete with galleries and basements, will have about 45 acres cf floor space — or about twelve times 
the space of the store as it was in 1876. 

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im^^ WANAMAK ER PRIMER OF PHILADELPHIA 

The demolition of the Chestnut street front for the erection of the final section was begun on September 
14, 1908. The new store entered Chestnut street on October 11, 1909. 

The New Wanamaker Building in New York City occupies the block bounded by Broadway and 
Fourth avenue. Eighth and Ninth streets, and is opposite the old Stewart Building across Ninth street 
and connected with it by three tunnels. The new building is fourteen stories high, with a basement and 
sub-basement — sixteen stories in all — reaching 220 feet above the sidewalk. Thirteen thousand five hun- 
dred tons of steel were used in its fireproof construction, one of the larger beams alone weighing 34 
tons. For the foundations it was necessary to go down 70 feet, through quicksand and water, to reach 
the solid rock on which the structure now stands. Twenty-six elevators, all of the high-speed plunger 
type, insure safety. Four of the elevators are large enough to lift heavy vans bodily into the store, 
delivery wagons also. 

Wagner Free Institute. Seventeenth street and Montgomery avenue. Founded by William Wagner 
about 1856. At his death in 1885 he left his estate to the Institute. 

William Penn's Cottage. This was the first brick house built in America. For picture and brief account 
of it, see back of map. 

Wissahickon. A stream rising in the northern part of Montgomery County and entering Philadelphia 
west of Chestnut Hill; then for four miles passing through a romantic vale to the Schuylkill, just above 
the Falls. 

Zoological Garden. This resort, west of Girard avenue bridge, has the largest and most complete col- 
lection in America, and has but one superior in the world, that of Regent's Park, London. It was first 
opened to visitors on July 1, 1874. In the enclosure is the Mansion built by John Penn in 1785, and 
known as "Solitude." 




•1 




HE most important step in the 
present history of mercantile 
business 






Beginning with our new fiscal year for 1910, this day, February 1, 
the Wanamaker Stores, both in Philadelphia & New York 

DELIVER FREE 

Anywhere in the United States & to all parts of the world 

All Prepaid & Charge Purchases 
of $5 or over 

Which can be sent by mail in one package within the international 
postal limits of weight 




When goods cannot be mailed we deliver 
free by express or freight all prepaid & 
charge purchases of $5 or over 

TO ANY EXPRESS OR FREIGHT STATION IN 



Pennsylvania Maryland District of Columbia 

New Jersey Delaware North Carolina 

New York Virginia South Carolina 

Ohio West Virginia Rhode Island 

(Excepting bulky goods, which cannot be delivered 

within the single package limit of postal rates) 
In the Wanamaker Free Delivery Service, the Store reserves the right to decide the mode of transportation ; 
that is, to send by Mail, by Express, by Freight, by Baggage Master, or by Store Delivery Wagon 



Connecticut 

Massachusetts 

Vermont 

New Hampshire 

Maine 



NOTE. — When your order does not amount to $5, you can combine it with 
an order of one or two friends in your home town, sending a combination order 
for $5 or more, & it will be delivered free within the above limits to one address 



The near completion of our new store, with its decrease of expense in arranging for systematic handling 
of the business, its reduction in insurance cost, & the vast saving in eliminating constant repairs & 
changes, permits us to carry out this plan, long considered, for the free delivery of merchandize all over 
the world. 

We still stand upon the ground we took many years ago when we said in our open advertizement: 
patronize your home stores first; & we still consider it the duty of people living near their local stores 
to support them. We are inviting only such business as the hom.e merchants are unable to take care of. 
No discounts to any one will be allowed on merchandize sent thru this new free delivery system. 

THIS NEW FREE DELIVERY BRINGS 
WANAMAKER'S DIRECT TO YOUR HOME 

It brings the exceptional Wanamaker merchandize, the unusual Wanamaker service, & the great 

Wanamaker shopping advantages & privileges, right to your ov/n door without extra cost. 

It means that you can write a letter to Wanamaker's, ordering what you want, enclosing $5 or over, & 

have your goods come home without one penny being added to the price of the merchandize. 

It means that thousands of families within this greatly enlarged circle will open monthly charge accounts 

with Wanamaker's (new accounts invited) & thus avoid even the trouble of enclosing money with the 

order. 

63 



This Free Delivery Service is open, not only to those who send in their orders by mail, but also 

TO THOSE WHO COME TO THE STORE & MAKE THEIR PURCHASES HERE 

And in taking advantage of the many exceptional offerings of the Wanamaker Stores, such as our Silk 
Sales, Clothing Sales, Shoe Sales, Hosiery & Underwear Sales, etc., the saving in price will often more 
than pay your railroad fare from quite a long distance. 

THE PHILADELPHIA WANAMAKER BUILDING IS THE LARGEST RETAIL 

STORE IN THE WORLD 

& contains nearly 45 acres of floor space. It covers the largest undivided business block in the city, 485 
feet long, from Chestnut to Market street, & 250 feet from Thirteenth to Juniper street, and actually 
dwarfs the $30,000,000 City Hall near by. Rising 12 stories — 247 feet — above the ground, & 2% stories 
below the street level, the huge granite, steel-ribbed building is of fireproof construction to the smallest 
detail. 

The location of the Wanamaker Store is without doubt the most convenient in Philadelphia. It is 
midway between the two great railway terminals, less than five minutes' walk from each, & the subway 
brings it within less than ten minutes of the great terminals along the Delaware River front, the traffic 
gateways for the various railroad lines of New Jersey, & for the steamship lines that ply the Delaware 
River. 

The same subway to the west binds the Store with the marvelous & still growing chain of trolley roads 
spreading into the suburbs in all directions & tapping what is probably the richest suburban country in 
the world. Practically every street car line centers within a few blocks, or else directly in front, of the 
Wanamaker Building. 

In the future rapid transit plans of the city, which will probably include tunnels under the Delaware & 
a subway running both ways on Broad Street, the Wanamaker Store is bound to be the great cen- 
tral station. 

Some years ago there was a great rush cityward of home-makers, because people could find comforts & 
conveniences in the cities that they could not get anywhere else. 

Today, in the built-up East at least, there is practically no city & no country, for both are coming 
closer together in their relations, one supplementing the other, the city giving to the country its con- 
veniences & comforts, the country giving to the city its products, its health & its pure air. It is nothing 
unusual for a man now to conduct his business in a great city & live with his family 50 miles away in 
the open country. With the mail, the telephone, & now with 

THIS WANAMAKER WORLD-WIDE FREE DELIVERY SERVICE 

the whole world is absolutely linkt with Wanamaker's. 

If any one, reading this announcement, does not understand any part of it distinctly, please write for 

further information, addressing the undersigned. 



February 1. 1910. 

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THE BETSY ROSS HOUSE 

The little upholstery shop, at No. 239 Arch 
street, in which the first American flag was 
made. 




MASONIC TEMPLE 

It is of pure Norman architecture, rising 95 
feet from the sidewalk, with two towers, one 
250 feet high. The building is of granite, and 
the facade is exceedingly elaborate. 




INDEI' 
Buflt lu 1729 



Here Ibe Dec I: 
clulmed. here 
bere tbe 



DENCE HALL 
5 as the Coloniiil Slate IIoii: 
tlon of Indepeiidciice wsis iir 
■ first Congress 



the Eevolii- 
Wur. The oM Liberty Bell Is the cblef 
feature of the buildiue. It wiis bwug in tin- 
steeple In 1753. 

The Rldgway Library. Broad and Cbristinn 
Btr«ets. a monameot to tbe munificence of Dr. 
Rosb. was erected na a memorial to bis wife. 
Madam Rash. n4e Rfdgway. 

Tbe Library contafna many rare literary 
treasures. Inclodlug the library bequeathed to 
the city by James Logao. 





bridge and Dale of the Nary. 



THE UCTSV ItO^i 

The little upholstery she 

(Street. Id which tbe first 




MASONIC TEMPLE 



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First Things in Philadelphia 

The first pleasure grounds lu the couii 
ere laid out In IfiSl. among tbein Cen 
mare, adjacent to tbe site of this Store. 



fiist ir-.iii] III II ,■ sriiic formerly stood 

first use of piieiiuiittk- cnah tubes was In 

first liiw school In the country was 
1 in this city in 1700. 

first hank In the country, tbe Bank of 

America, was opened In 1783. 

flr^t use of electric lights for stores was 
s Store. 

first waterworks In the t 



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rid to have an Amerl- 

Thc first store In the world to receive Marconi 
messages was Wiiiiamakcf's. 

Tbe first store In tbe world to include fi 
larly chartered University of C 
employees was this. 

Tbe first store in the world to recelv 
telephone messiiges night and day wa 
Wanamaker'a. 

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POINTS OF INTEREST 
IN PHILADELPHIA 



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:t. House (»£ Ui-fiige. 
■I. keservofr. 

C. I'ark Tbfiitr.-. 

7. RodeC Sbnloiii. 

8. Girls" Comuieriljil Iligli 

9. RciKliug Dc|)ot. 

10. St. Mark's I'. K. Cliuir 

11. Spring Garden liistUutc. 

12. New Mint. 

v. St. Joliu's Liitliernn Cli 

14. BiildwiD's Locomotive V 

15. Iteadiiig Rtiitloii. 



17, Kt, Viuceut's Hotue for Orj 

19. Pet]n87)v;ii]iu Uullrond Still 

20. Friends' Mei-lliig House. 
2L I-Iubuemauu l.'olli-gc. 



. M. E. Cburcli. 



£8. CUeslu 
29. Cbesui 



: Stn 



30. I'ost OOiee. 

31. Fruukiiu Instltntp. 

33. Christ Chur<-b. 

34. Bourse. 

35. Carpenters' Utill. 
30. Custom House. 

37. lodepuudence HalL 

38. Auditorium Tlientre. 

39. Wulnut Street Tlieatre. 

40. Gurrick Tbeatre. 

42. Swedeuborgian ChiireL. 

43. Baltimore and Ohio Dejiut. 

41. Cnlversliy of I'euusj-lvjinln. 
45. I'blliiOi^lpbiu Aliii^buuse. 
4(S. Expurt Expoalliuu Hall. 

47. Uuiteil States Aroeual. 

48. NuTul Asylum. 

49. BetLauy Prcsbyturian Obiirfli 
51. Academy of Music. 

53. luduslrlul Art Scbuol. 

54. I'riiuHylvonla Hlatorlcul Society, 
JS. Broad St. Tlieatre. 

56. I'f unity iTaniu Hospital. 

57. lUdgwuy Library. 

58. Terries to Camden. 
39. Perries to Camden. 

00. I'euusylTania Kallroad Kerry. 

01. Ke;>dlng Railroad Fercy. 

02. Old Swedes' Church. 
C3. BoyV High School. 
C4. GhU- High School. 

05. Holy Trinity P. K. Chuivli. 
6C. A'tidemj of Natural Si-lcucfn. 
or. Aiieljibl Theatre, 
68l I-yri^' Theatre. 

69. Forrent Tbeutre. 

70. Keith's Theatre. 

7L Hummerateiu'g Opera House. 




CENTRAL PHILADELPHIA-SHOWING SUBWAY AND WANAMaKBR STORE 



First Things in Philadelphia 



The first pleasure grounds in the country 
were laid out in lf!81, among- them Center 
Square, adjacent to the site of this Store. 

The first medical school was established here 
in 1751. 

The first hospital, the Pennsylvania, was 
started in 17.51. 

The first lightning rod was set up in thi.s 
city in 1752. 

The first arsenal in the State formerly stood 
on the site of this Store. 

The first High School in the country once 
stood on a portion of this Store site. 

The first piano in this country was made in 
this city in 1775. 

The first use of pneumatic cash tubes was in 
this Store. 

The first law school in the country was 
opened in this city in 1790. 

The first bank in the country, the Bank of 
North America, was opened in 1783. 

The first use of electric lights for stores was 
in this Store. 

The first water-works in the country were in 
Center Square, opposite the site of this Store. 

Philadelphia is the first city in the world to 
have a fire-pipe line. 

The first store in the world to install 2000 
telephones was this. 

The first store in the world to have an Ameri- 
can week was Wanamaker's. 

The first store in the world to receive Marconi 
messages was Wanamaker's. 

The first store in the world to include a regu- 
larly chartered University of Commerce for its 
employees was this. 

The first store in the world to receive 
telephone messages night and day was 
Wanamaker's. 

The first store in the world to place flying 
machines on sale was Wanamaker's. 




ARMS OF PENN 



,12?^"^ O*" CONGRESS 



014 314 776 9ft 




THE WANAMAKER STORE, PHILADELPHIA 



TIMES PRINTING HOUSB 
PHIL^niCIJ'HIA 



